Stormy weather buffets Upstate on Monday evening

Tuesday

Quick-moving summer thunderstorms rumbled through the Upstate Monday evening, bringing needed rain but also power outages and a possible tornado.

The National Weather Service in Greer received one report of an unconfirmed tornado in Roebuck, said meteorologist Vince DiCarlo. Crews will evaluate the damage today, he said.

Strong winds tore off the roof, but left the ceiling intact at the singlewide mobile home on Trinity Drive, said county Fire Marshal Bill Hall. One woman was at home at the time, and she was not injured, Hall said.

'She said she heard the wind and started having some rain pour in through the roof, and she thought maybe the roof was leaking that bad,' Hall said. 'And she went outside to get in her car, and that's when she noticed the roof had been torn off the structure.'

The weather service also received a few reports of 60-mph winds associated with some of the heavier thunderstorms, which hit Spartanburg shortly after 6 p.m.

Some areas in the northern part of the county received up to 1.5 inches of rain, DiCarlo said, but most areas received less than a half-inch of precipitation.

Several house fires were also reported, including one on John B. White Sr. Blvd. Two lanes of the major thoroughfare were closed as fire trucks attended to the small blaze.

Also, more than 3,000 Duke Power customers in Spartanburg County lost power, alongside about 500 in Cherokee County.

The outages were more severe in Greenville County, with 5,000 outages, and in Anderson County, where more than 6,000 outages were reported.

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